Detail

Area

Japan

Commodity Group

Meat

Commodity

Bovine meat

Date

01/02/2016

Policy Category

Trade

Policy Instrument

Import ban

Description

Lifted ban on beef imports from Denmark. Japan imposed a ban on bovine meat imports from all EU countries in 2001, referring to the risk of BSE. The ban had been lifted for four other EU countries  France, Ireland, the Netherlands and Poland  in 2013.